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This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism. As more countries legally permit assisted suicide and do not necessarily bar the participation of non-residents, suicide tourism is becoming a larger and more complex global issue. The book sets out the parameters for future debate by first contextualizing the practice and identifying its treatment under international and domestic law. It then analyses the ethical ramifications, weighing up where the state's responsibilities lie, and addressing the controversial roles of accompanying persons. The book goes on to offer a sociological and cultural analysis of suicide tourism, including interviews with the various stakeholders: policy makers, assisted suicide associations, and medical and patients' organizations, in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, and the UK. The book concludes with a summary of the legal, ethical, political, and sociological dimensions of suicide tourism.

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Sperling is to be commended for gathering and collating this material and for presenting different perspectives both from Switzerland and from the countries of origin. * David Albert Jones, The New Bioethics * Both in its empirical and in its moral/political analysis, there is much to recommend in this book to anyone interested in the issue of cross-border access to MAiD. * Wayne Sumner, Bioethics * Through his in-depth discussion of the legal, moral and philosophical considerations raised by this practice, Sperling introduces the notion that arguments based on the moral and humanitarian obligation of states towards persons - regardless of their nationality - offer a more convincing justification for the need to acknowledge and regulate suicide tourism than the objections commonly raised against it, such as those based on consequentialism, and the irrationality of suicide as supported by Kantian deontology. * Kalima Carrigan, Sociology of Health & Illness * the monograph serves as a primer for anyone - be it academic, professional, or otherwise - who would wish to then pursue the topic in greater depth. * Glenys Williams, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University, Wales, Medical Law Review *

Sperling is to be commended for gathering and collating this material and for presenting different perspectives both from Switzerland and from the countries of origin. * David Albert Jones, The New Bioethics * Both in its empirical and in its moral/political analysis, there is much to recommend in this book to anyone interested in the issue of cross-border access to MAiD. * Wayne Sumner, Bioethics * Through his in-depth discussion of the legal, moral and philosophical considerations raised by this practice, Sperling introduces the notion that arguments based on the moral and humanitarian obligation of states towards persons - regardless of their nationality - offer a more convincing justification for the need to acknowledge and regulate suicide tourism than the objections commonly raised against it, such as those based on consequentialism, and the irrationality of suicide as supported by Kantian deontology. * Kalima Carrigan, Sociology of Health & Illness *

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Daniel Sperling is Associate Professor in Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Haifa and teaches at the Department of Nursing and the Faculty of Law.

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